“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast ourContinue reading “Mark Twain on New Year’s Day”
Category Archives: Food & Drink
Stop Killer Coke!
Death squads have assassinated eight trade union leaders in Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia. The Stop Killer Coke campaign holds the beverage giant responsible. MADELEINE BARAN This article is from the November/December 2003 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. On the morning of December 5, 1996, two members of a paramilitary gang drove a motorcycleContinue reading “Stop Killer Coke!”
Factoid: the Nazis Invented Fanta Soda
From “Fanta” Wiki: Fanta (pronounced [faːnta]) is a global brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks from the Coca-Cola Company. There are over 90 flavors worldwide. The drink debuted in Germany in 1941 and originally sold only in Europe.[1] [….] Fanta originated when it became illegal to import Coca-Cola into Germany during World War II dueContinue reading “Factoid: the Nazis Invented Fanta Soda”
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say
By Christopher Wanjek A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictlyContinue reading “Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say”
Sugar as harmful as tobacco, alcohol, experts say
Sugar is so harmful that it should be controlled in the same way as tobacco and alcohol, according to a team of leading public health experts. Three US scientists from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) maintain sugar is more than just “empty calories” that makes people fat. They argue that high calorie,Continue reading “Sugar as harmful as tobacco, alcohol, experts say”
‘How can you take money from a corporation. . .doing that kind of thing to perfectly good and totally innocent people?’ Catholic leader rips Chiquita; Cincinnati banana giant responds to Enquirer probe
Chiquita SECRETS Revealed MIKE GALLAGHER & CAMERON McWHIRTER Cincinnati Enquirer 3-May-1998 In response to revelations about Chiquita Brands International’s overseas business practices in Sunday’s Enquirer, a prominent Catholic bishop has called on Catholic institutions not to accept donations from Carl H. Lindner Jr. or Chiquita. Chiquita, meanwhile, issued a statement Sunday defending itself “as aContinue reading “‘How can you take money from a corporation. . .doing that kind of thing to perfectly good and totally innocent people?’ Catholic leader rips Chiquita; Cincinnati banana giant responds to Enquirer probe”
Life on a banana plantation; Growing Chiquita bananas: pesticides and hard work
Chiquita SECRETS Revealed MIKE GALLAGHER & CAMERON McWHIRTER Cincinnati Enquirer 3-May-1998 On farms from Mexico to Ecuador, Chiquita and its affiliates grow millions of bananas every year for consumers in North America and Europe. The fruit is grown and harvested in a labor-intensive process that involves an army of workers, lots of equipment, crop-dusting airplanes,Continue reading “Life on a banana plantation; Growing Chiquita bananas: pesticides and hard work”
The Crimes of Chiquita
1. In 1984 the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was renamed Chiquita Brands International. While I will not delve too deeply into the transgressions of the UFCO, I will say that the country I was born and spent 18 years of my life in, Guatemala, owes much of the political turmoil in it’s modern history toContinue reading “The Crimes of Chiquita”
Junk food as ‘Addictive as Drugs’ – Why Junk Food is Addictive
“When researchers electronically stimulated the part of the brain that feels pleasure, they found that the rats on unlimited junk food needed more and more stimulation to register the same level of pleasure as the animals on healthier diets.” Junk food is almost as addictive as heroin, scientists have found. A diet of burgers, chips,Continue reading “Junk food as ‘Addictive as Drugs’ – Why Junk Food is Addictive”
World War II — brought to you by Nestlé’s candy
The Swiss didn’t just hang on to Holocaust victims’ bank accounts. They used them to bankroll Hitler’s war machine. BY JONATHAN BRODER The next time you’re hungry for a Nestlé’s Crunch or a box of Quik, consider this: In 1933, the same year that Adolph Hitler rose to power in Germany, the food giant wasContinue reading “World War II — brought to you by Nestlé’s candy”
A Nice Cup of Coffee
[An article I wrote on Dec. 22, 2009] If one looks up volumes written on the subject of coffee, most likely they will take the form of table books or cookbooks with very little instruction, aside from a few attractive pictures of the drink, and perhaps some rudimentary tours of its various flavors, coupled withContinue reading “A Nice Cup of Coffee”
The Espresso Stalinist 